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Rapper Macklemore sings about the joys and happiness found shopping in a second-hand store and he is right. Whenever you can buy a pre-owned or vintage go for it! Buying used is often an easy way to discover low-priced, high-quality, and one-of-a-kind items. But in some instances, preowned or old pieces can be unsanitary, more costly, and, in worst-case scenarios, terrifying. So the next time you seek your favorite thrift shop (or an antique store or garage sale), stay clear of specific items.

1.) Headgear

Don’t purchase because once a headgear receives collision, its ability to protect the head from future incidence has decreased. If your helmet has received significant implications from crash, accident or fall, then you should buy a new helmet to sustain future injury.

2) Mattresses/Bedding

Mattresses are a hometown to that little plague we like to term bed bugs. Bed bugs are microscopic, nocturnal that can hibernate in the far corners of our beds during months without feeding. That implies a mattress or bed frame may be in a thrift shop for months and promptly after purchase and placed in a home of people; the bed bugs arouse because they sense the warmth of bodies resting above them.

3) Stuffed Animals

As with diapers, stuffed animals are probably the typical disposable commodities owned by children. This is because stuffed animals are more prone to be drooled on, mixed with food and eaten up by pets. Secondly and far more critical than their gross constituents, stuffed animals are constructed with materials to mirror human and animal hair which can become the comfortable homes of lice.

4) Baby Cribs and Children’s Car Seats

Presently like used baby cribs, purchasing a baby seat or carrier at a thrift shop doubles the risk that you are buying a piece of gear for your child that fails to meet today’s protection technology.

The general practice is to replace child car seats every six years from the date of manufacture. That is because, across time, the plastic from the automobile seat is influenced by rigid circumstances of heat and sun lying in a car.

While a vehicle seat may have looks brand new and have never been used, over time the plastic succumbs strength and is more prone to snapping or worse, not being able to resist full impact from a crash compared to its power at the time of initial acquisition. But similar to baby cribs, car seats are also recollected regularly. While thrift markets are not supposed to retail car seats and carriers because of this risk as monitored by the US Product Safety Commission, a few risk-items may glide through the cracks at your local thrift store chain.

5) Athletic Shoes

“I could take some Pro Wings, make them cool, sell those
The sneaker heads would be like, “Ah, he got the Velcros.”(Thrift Shop by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis)

Athletic shoes should be acquired to accommodate you achieve the safest, most optimal running stride for you. It might seem like an excellent economical idea at the moment, but you’ll soon learn that your running success isn’t going to be a prime class with a second-hand set of shoes.

Athletic footwear is not supposed to be used for running after about 400 miles of running use. When running shoes are bequeathed to a thrift shop, the chance that the pumps have been used close to that amount is excellent. How else would they find their way into a thrift shop? Their previous owners’ worked them to their expiration date and decided to donate them for fear of being wasteful.